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• Gulfnews: Hope in sight for Arab internet users
• City Schools: Whitehaven High goes global with Arabic class : Local News : Memphis Commercial Appeal
  Four languages being introduced by district By Jane Roberts (Contact), Memphis Commercial Appeal Sunday, August 9, 2009 As school buses…
• Fluency in classical Arabic is its own reward
• The Marhaba! Project
• China launches Arabic-language TV channel | World news | guardian.co.uk
• Pupils in Arabic pilot project (From Keighley News)
  A pilot project involving Eastwood Primary School has seen pupils learning Arabic as their main foreign language.

• For Recruiter Speaking Arabic, Saying Go Army Is a Hard Job – New York Times
  EL CAJON, Calif. — Sgt. Cameron Murad wanders the strip malls and parking lots of this Iraqi immigrant enclave in…
• Not in Translation | The Monthly
  Where, in other words, would today’s future leader go to learn Arabic?
• How to become an accidental linguist, in three strange lessons – Telegraph
• When it pays to speak
  Do your bit for international relations — learn a foreign language.
• Arabic language teaching in decline | Magharebia.com
  Experts meet in Tunis to discuss a deteriorating level of Arabic language teaching and a decline in the use of…
• Riverdale Journal – Riverdale Yeshiva Students Make Arabic a Cultural Bridge – NYTimes.com
  Several years ago, six teenagers at the SAR yeshiva high school in Riverdale came to the principal with a request:…
• Elsewhere: America’s Linguistic Legacy in Iraq – Schott’s Vocab Blog | NYTimes.com
  Assessing the cultural impact of America’s deployment in Iraq for The Washington Post, Anthony Shadid offered a taste of the…
• Take up a third language | The New Straits Times Online: Rosmah
  KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister’s wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor encourages Malaysian children to take up a third language.
• Arabic: a language for Belgium? | World news | guardian.co.uk
  A controversial Islamist activist has caused waves by demanding that a fourth official tongue be recognised, writes Andrew Osborn
• Crossing the divide | Education | The Guardian
  Studying the language of intifada crosses many divides, says Elizabeth Cripps Do we use conversations about language as a proxy…
• Arabic teaching at crisis point | Education | Guardian Weekly
• University to offer Arabic MBA course – Scotsman.com News
  HERIOT-WATT University in Edinburgh has become the first in Europe to offer an MBA in Arabic.
• Multicultural director leads multilingual teaching school
• Ennahar Online – Copenhagen suggests Arabic as a second language in schools
• The Daily Star – Lebanon News | Summer Arabic program sees huge boost in interest
• Language classes ‘reduced to holiday phrases’ – Telegraph
  Foreign language classes in state schools have been reduced to a “survival tool kit for a holiday abroad”, says a…
• Learning Arabic: four weeks in Tunis – Telegraph
  Rosemary Behan gave herself one month in Tunisia to learn the Arabic language and alphabet. How did she do? Mumtez!
• Saudi Gazette – Influencing Europe through language
  Europe Speaks Arabic’, written by V. Abdur Rahim, an illustrious professor in Arabic and specialist in philology – who has…
• School was first elementary in state to require Arabic | ajc.com
  Amana Academy opened as a first in Georgia, the first public elementary school to require students to learn Arabic. Four…

• Microsoft working on technology to promote Arabic online – Media & Marketing – ArabianBusiness.com
  Grosvenor Park Hotel Bed & Breakfast Distance: 0.2 miles NW Tel: 01752 229312| 114-116, North Rd East, Plymouth, Devon PL4…
• USATODAY.com | Arabic language is in demand
  Purdue University sophomore Brent Forgues is chasing an academic dream that was a rarity on this West Lafayette, Ind., campus…
• US College Students Crowd Into Arabic Language Classes
  Arabic has been part of the language departments at some U.S. universities since the 1950s. But the number of students…
• Education- msnbc.com | Foreign language classes a college hit
  13 percent increase in four years includes doubling of Arabic enrollment Enrollment in foreign language courses is booming on American…
• Slate Magazine | Why learning Arabic is so hard. – Robert Lane Greene
  Why’s it taking so long? When I walked into Arabic class last week, Karam, my teacher, cheerily asked me how…
• Inside Higher Ed | News: Hype vs. Reality in Arabic Enrollment Boom
  Conventional wisdom holds that the United States needs all the Arabic speakers it can get. But in Seattle this semester,…
• The Yale Herald | Post-Sept. 11, students crowd NELC classes
  en Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations professor Benjamin Foster taught Introduction to the Middle East five years ago, he had…
• Foreign Language Classes Increase in Popularity [incl. Arabic] – Campus Watch
  Students have always appreciated language classes as a way to understand a different culture, but Hong Li, a lecturer in…
• The News & Observer | Arabic courses increase in popularity
  Demand in Triangle and throughout U.S. is driven by career goals
• Don’t be spooked, your country needs you – News – Middleton Guardian
  FANCY a job that’s less nine to five and more MI5? Well the Security Service are searching for spooks in…
• The Ithacan Online | Foreign language classes increase in popularity
  Students have always appreciated language classes as a way to understand a different culture, but Hong Li, a lecturer in…
• Studying Arabic Is Not Politics | The Middle East Institute
  It has been more than 70 years since President Elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt uttered the sentiment that we have “nothing…
• Surge in students studying Arabic outstrips supply of teachers – USATODAY.com
  A shortage of Arabic-language teachers across the country is shedding light on a classic economics question: What happens when there…
• The rise of Middle East studies | University Affairs
  For better and worse, Middle East and Islamic studies have become the focus of intense interest, and scrutiny
• German constitution ‘to be rewritten’ because of rise of Arabic and Turkish – Telegraph
  Germany’s constitution could be rewritten to establish German as the official language under controversial plans by conservative politicians fearful of…
• Informal Arabic class aims to fill course gap
  Bowdoin’s Arabic teacher spends two hours a week teaching the alphabet, pronunciation, and simple word combinations to a class of…
• World Tribune.com | U.S. pushes Arabic: Study of language now tops Hebrew
  WASHINGTON — The United States has designated Arabic a strategic language and promoted its instruction in schools throughout the nation.
• UC Berkeley students enrolling in Arabic classes in record numbers
  – A generation ago, during the Cold War, students on college campuses were poring over Cyrillic alphabets and Russian textbooks.
• Tufts E-News | Arabic On Rise At Tufts
  Tomeet a growing student demand for Arabic language classes, Tuftshas been expanding its offerings.Medford/Somerville,Mass.
• Global News | Learning the lingo in the land of Bin Laden
  American students flock to Yemen to learn Arabic, undeterred by the country’s reputation as an Al Qaeda stronghold.
• BBC London | Arabic classes on the rise
  The number of people taking Qur’anic Arabic classes has gone up as people try to understand their faith more deeply,…
• Popularity of Arabic on rise at Salem State – SalemNews.com, Salem, MA
  ALEM – As a little girl, Suja Hamida fled with her family from Somalia after civil war broke out in…
• Arabic courses gain popularity at ‘U’ | The Michigan Daily
  With the media’s attention and career opportunities geared more than ever on the Middle East, enrollment in the University’s Arabic…
• Yale Daily News | Arabic courses swell in enrollment, popularity
  Middle East politics, culture attract record numbers of undergraduates to introductory language courses Although Spanish, French and Chinese are still…
• Arabic Language Classes on the Rise : NPR
  The Bryant Park Project, November 15, 2007 · A new study shows Arabic has exploded in popularity on college campuses,…
• BBC NEWS | England | Student designs translator device
  A university student has come up with a new gadget that he hopes may help soldiers and civilians in Iraq
• BBC NEWS | England | RAF staff getting Arabic lessons
  Staff at a top RAF base are being offered courses in Arabic language and culture prior to Middle East postings.
• BBC NEWS | Coaching US troops on Iraqi culture
  US officials say the military is transforming to meet the changing face of war in Iraq and Afghanistan. BBC Arabic’s…
• BBC NEWS | Speak Arabic? £100,000 could be yours…
  A shortage of Arabic speakers has seen earnings for the best translators and interpreters reach £100,000 a year. Demand, driven…
• BBC NEWS | Arabic language taster courses
  People in Rotherham are being invited to join an Arabic language course to promote community cohesion.
• BBC NEWS | Education | Schools ‘teaching 30 languages’
• School may end Arabic classes over budget cuts | DesMoinesRegister.com | The Des Moines Register
• Saudi VU student reaches out to public as Arabic teacher / nwi.com
• Want to learn Arabic?
• Limit use of Arabic at high schools 01/18/09
• Tunis seminar urges correct use of Arabic language in media (Magharebia.com)
• Dubai Municipality teaches Arabic to non-Arabic speaking employees | Dubai Municipality

من المستفيد من ‘إخراس’ فيسبوك وتويتر؟ Middle East Online ميدل ايست اونلاين

تدريس العلوم والرياضيات باللغة الانكليزية في أبوظبي     Middle East Online ميدل ايست اونلاين

الطفل المهاجر: قضايا لغوية للمعلم والأستاذ   Middle East Online ميدل ايست اونلاين

ألعاب افتراضية إبداعية.. لتعليم الصغار اللغات,

إنصاف اللغة من الإعراب

العربية ثقافة اقلية في افريقيا

الليلة أشوفك.. أميركية تغني بلسان عربي

حمى ‘الغش التكنولوجي’ تصل إلى سوريا .

هل أنت مُدرّس؟ إذن، لا بد أن لديك مشاكل .

كوبا وفنزويلا تزيلان الأمية في بوليفيا، فأين العرب من أميتهم؟

دار الخليــــج-أخبار الدار-مؤتمر مدرسي المدارس يدعو إلى الإبداع والحداثة التعليمية

صحيفة الاقتصادية الالكترونية: بدء المؤتمر الدولي الأول لعلوم اللغة العربية وآدابها بمصر

قضايا “التعليم واللغة” على طاولة مؤتمر “المجمع” بالقاهرة | جريدة المدينة

المؤتمر العلمي الأول ( اللغة العربية وتحديات العصر ) جامعة الحسين بن طلال – الأردن | شبكة صوت العربية

جريدة الرياض : أبوظبي تنظم مؤتمر اللغة العربية والتعليم… رؤية مستقبلية للتطوير

العربية) عند مدرسي (اللغة) فـي الجامعات| جريدة الرأي

جريدة الدستور || اللغة الثانية .. للتفكير ام للتقليد؟ *

المصرى اليوم | قنوات النايل.. و«ضحضحة» اللغة العربية

كونا : مركز تقويم وتعليم الطفل يعد برنامجا لتدريس العربية باستخدام الحواس – التربية

الإيسيسكو تعقد في سويسرا ملتقى تربوياً لتطوير تدريس اللغة العربية

إسلام أون لاين.نت – علوم وصحة – بتمويل أوروبي.. “النت بتتكلم عربي”!!

مؤتمر تقنيات اللغة العربية برعاية الإتحاد الاوروبي بالقاهرة – علوم و تكنولوجيا | EGYNews.net

الأمازيغية والعربية: تصارع أم تعايش؟ | Middle East Online ميدل ايست اونلاين
تعلم الأمازيغية يحمل بين طياته تشبثا بالهوية الأصلية، أما تعلم العربية فهو شرف كبير لكل من لا ينطق بها